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2012-2013 Program Year Announcement

September 13, 2012

Welcome back to school, mates!  We are fresh off an incredibly successful 2011-2012 Discus Awards program during which we awarded more than $5 million in scholarships to well-rounded high school students. We also added a new type of scholarship - network scholarships - to the open scholarships we were already awarding.

Our 2012-2013 program promises to be another great one, and we hope to award even more scholarships than we did last year. However, we are making some changes to our program and need a little more time to implement them for the '12-'13 program year. As a result, please note the following changes:

1) Responding to feedback from previous Discus Award winners, we are changing the levels of recognition we award:
a) Discus Awards Finalists will be all-around students who demonstrate outstanding achievements in each of their three Discus attributes
b) Honorable Mention Candidates will be well-rounded students who have demonstrated characteristics that indicate progress on a path to becoming an all-around student
2) We will be awarding our program's network scholarships quarterly. Students must still be awarded some level of recognition to be eligible for network scholarships.
3) We will be awarding our ten $2,000 National All-Around Student Scholarships on two dates. Our first five NAAS Scholarship recipients will be announced on January 31st, and our last five will be announced on June 30th

As a result of the updates to our program, our judging panel will not begin reviewing '12-'13 nominations until November 1st.  We will award our first '12-'13 scholarships no later than January 31, 2013, but no sooner than November 30, 2012.

Please note that you may still apply for the '12-'13 program any time before May 31, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. ET.  If you have already applied, remember that you may make changes to your existing nomination by logging into your Discus Awards account using the password you created during the nomination process. As you continue to achieve excellence in your diverse range of activities, we encourage you to include those updates in your nomination so our judging panel may recognize those achievements when they consider you for recognition and scholarships.

While you wait to hear from us, please also feel free to check out our Best List of College Scholarships or log into your Discus Awards account and browse your 'My Benefits' page.

Thank you for your continued patience and get ready for an even newer and more improved Discus Awards program!

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